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A professional escort and her boyfriend who were free on bail after being charged last year with starving the woman's two young daughters were arrested in Dallas County on Wednesday for allegedly failing to meet conditions set by their bail bond company.

They were released after posting bail through San Antonio-based Available Bailbonds.

An employee at the company said it asked a judge to drop their bonds Dec. 21 because the couple failed to check in.

Cliff Herberg, Bexar County first assistant district attorney, said they apparently had been residing in Dallas County, which would violate another condition set by the bail company that required them to remain in Bexar County.

Both were held without bail on the original charges of injury to a child.

During a temporary custody hearing weeks after their arrest, McClintick told a civil court judge she didn't see anything wrong with her children's physiques.

She outright disagreed that photos of her 2-year-old daughter, who weighed 17 pounds, showed the child's ribs visible and her stomach distended.

She didn't know why the child would have needed to be fed intravenously at the hospital for several days, she added.

“She eats fine,” McClintick told the judge, explaining she had been a small child as well. “She's healthy.”

The younger girl was examined July 13 and had “signs of starvation, malnutrition, sparse hair, bony prominences, and protuberant abdomen,” an arrest warrant affidavit says, but police said their injuries weren't life-threatening.

While the younger girl was being examined, police repeatedly asked where the older girl was.

After allegedly telling investigators for hours that she was at the movies with a friend, McClintick admitted the girl was at home hidden in a closet, where the girl said she slept with her sister.

The older girl told police they were fed once a day and hid in the closet while their mother and their live-in baby sitter, Denise Brown, 23, danced for men at the home, according to the affidavit.

Brown was also arrested at the time and charged with injury to a child.

The girls were taken to a shelter after being treated for malnutrition. CPS spokeswoman Mary Walker said on Thursday that the children are in foster care.

CPS special investigator Charles Paul testified the first thing the 2-year-old girl told him was that she was hungry and it took her only minutes to eat six chicken nuggets, a cheeseburger, french fries, apple slices and chocolate milk that he gave her.

In fiscal year 2012, 19 children died from abuse or neglect in Bexar County. That's one fewer than fiscal year 2011, when 20 children died — a record.